Believed that just 10 years later our armed forces would enjoy a renaissance and respect. 20 years on it would be regarded War Winning Juggernaut innovation and courage or 30 years later it would ride so high in public estimation that a bipartisan Super Majority thought it perfectly reasonable to send our armed forces to the other side of the world to two alien societies filled with pheasants and fanatics in our own image. Why did it happen . It happened for a brief moment in history, the arms of the United States grasped its purpose and place. Between the humiliation of the 1970s and the union russ of uber russ. Emerged are all too fleeting rediscovery of just what our country requires. America wasnt built on a streak of easy winnens a gordon gotten handouts won through suffering, pain that preceded any triumph and the men who won it were those who knew, taps cliche but its true that freedom isnt free. Freedom isnt free. Ben son of this says the armed forces perfect. The institution never grasp melled with vietnam by saying it wasnt their fault and vowed to never do anything like that again. Defense procurement is not as corrupt as it is today but still bad for the remust be biblical had in ways only impossible in fantastically rich nations. In this moment the armed forces represented something important. A core truth. It was nearly the only Civic Institution to speak that truth that truth about ourselves that america requires sacrifice renewed with every generation had the effect of making the military of the United States nearly the soul bearer of our national identity. While every other institution sank into well earned disrespect from banks to corporations to congress to academia to media and beyond, the armed forces stood tall in the eyes of americans and age of institutional collapse, a republic of free people decided its military was the best thing about it. That sounds good. But you know what comes after that. Our founders certainly knew. An armed forces cast in this role decided along with its admirers that it was the font of american sync virtue. Thats where things went horribly wrong. So wrong that our military has in a few short years undone nearly all the respect, esteem and admiration that it accumulated across a half century. Lets be clear this isnt just because it lost a war in afghanistan. The responsibility for that defeat a triumph by pakistan and the taliban over the u. S. Is only partly military nor boon doings, it is mostly because our armed forces, especially its leadership, decided its the Font Of American Civic Virtue it ought to weigh in on American Civics. This is a shocking turn. A bending without public debate and even less Public Notice the proper relationship between our republic and its military. That relationship predates the constitution itself. It was solidified by George Washington in his Newburgh Address of 1783 when he reminded The Con Continentals proof of unexampled patriotism and patient virtue rising superior to the pressure of the most complicated suffering or to borrow from top gun. We dont make policy here, gentlemen elected officials, civilians. We are the instruments of that policy. Ben well, the modern military has decided it does make policy. It is no longer the instrument. It is the authority. From general mark milley ranting about the danger of White Rage Social Justice bad alternative lifestyles and requiring women to register for the draft to air force Academy Superintendent doubling down on Social Justice messaging even after a known racial animus hoax to Flag Officers trading on unearned moral standing to pronounce on American History the Senior Officers actively thwarting lawful desires of civilian leadership. The men who run todays military are no longer in the business of defending america. That would, of course, require winning a war sometime. Instead, they are in the business of ruling it. They rule it hand in hand with the bureaucrats and idealogues control the commanding heights in government and the economy alike. They are of the same class. Thats partly because everyone who hits 06 and above hits upon the good grace of the senate for further advancement and enrichment. Partly because the real payday for Senior Officers lucrative Defense Industry employment after recushy jobs cashing in on contact requires public adherence to the progressive consensus. When you see every Major Corporation grabbling to the woke brigades, just know this is who whose paycheck your average Admiral Auditioning for. Did you see avatar rainbow colored . Isnt that precious . This camo wearing class exactly the opposite of what George Washington williams dwight highway hour and every Military Leader who understood American Civics for the past two and a half centuries did. They are happy to be partisans of themselves. To join the elite who are grinding down the remnants of the american spirit. Why do you think they spend so much time talking to the media and playing the washington blame game . They care more about branding than winning. Lieutenant colonel Paul Yen Ling wrote a pilot who loses a rifle loses far greater general lose as war. Its sad because its true. Nothing has been more unifying in American History than our flag and the men who defend it. Something happened in the past few years to change. The men wearing stars sit atop the most powerful Military Establishment in the history of mankind betrayed our trust. Thats the bad news. The good news is that below the top tiers, where dangerous close contact is still clear and present our armed forces remain a bastionian of what is good in america. We used to find greatness in our generals. For now those days are over but we can still find greatness somewhere else in the young recruit on yellow footprints of paris island in an airmen who volunteered for deployment and in those brave 19yearolds thrust in history at the abbey gate. These men and women without stars are not our rulers and do not seek to be. They are our brothers and sons sisters and daughters our neighbors and friends. A challenge for us now as a people is to reclaim the fullness of the armed forces, top to bottom for its real purpose. Not as a font of American Civics but as its bearer, not over the people but of us, by us and for us. Not led by men who profit but by those who serve and win the flag. Im ben domenech and this is the american crisis. Here now to respond former speaker of the house and author of the beyond biden newt gingrich. Speaker beginning imrich, i know that you are someone who is very much been in favor of dramatic Military Reform over the years. You understand the problems of those who bear stars today, how much they have led our military in the wrong direction. What can be done to solve this problem . Well, i think you first have to recognize that this is part of a larger problem wig government socialism corrupt everything it touches. Corrupts fbi and Justice Department schools students who cant pass any tests it corrupts our Major Corporations. So, of course the same disease, the same kind of spreading, if you will across the land of these kind of corrupt ideas have hit the pentagon. And people like the general milley, you know, he did this. And he decided from obama to biden, which is the same system, obama began the corrupting of america and some day people will write about how much his appointees and his policies and his rhetoric undermined america and weakened america and increased by the way racial tension in america. Then his Vice President came into office bringing even in thier people to be part of the government and, if you are a sophisticated washington politician. General, you look around. There is a great novel by anton called once a an eagle which takes two officers from the First World War up through vietnam. One is the kind of person you described with admiration, combat oriented, honest, willing to leave the Service Rather than lie. The other is a pure staff officer, politician, rising by telling power whatever it wants to hear. Its a great novel about the dangers we now face. And this is but this is true across everything. Its true in the news media. Its true in the universities. The depth of corruption, which is at the heart of Big Government socialism, is a topic that hasnt even begun to be discussed yet. Its a moral corruption. Its a corruption which breaks the law. It breaks the law at the border. When 400,000 people cross the border every month, thats a level of law breaking a level of corrupt behavior astonishing find it every aspect of the current system. Ben when you talk about system of Big Government socialism. The part that bothers me most for decades you would find no greater fandom for the American Military than within the republican electorate. They respect these generals. Come up respecting these generals. Their natural tendency is to trust them and believe in them and put faith in them. I think that was true even of former President Trump himself. Yet, what we have glernd a very dramatic i think series of decisions is that these generals are failed the very people who have been serving underneath them. Those Hardworking Americans who have been so much spine of america for some generations who have saved us in conflict after conflict. They failed them and, yet, it seems like there are no consequences for them. When did no one when did we reach the point where no one resigns . First of all, general h. R. Mcmaster wrote when he was a very Junior Officer a brilliant book called Dereliction Of Duty duty looked at vietnam in same parallel. We came out of vietnam. The officer corps grabbed itself and decided it had to learn terrible painful lessons and all through the 180s and i was allowed to be parts of this, they really fundamentally rethought what they were doing. And by 1990, they were a remarkably better system than they had been in the 1970s. And we saw all of that. Now we are back in the same business. What you have and i have to say we all owe general milley a debt of gratitude, he is so incompetent. He is so blatantly obvious, he lies so clearly in public, what he says is so clearly despicable that anybody who has any sense at all knows this guy shouldnt be chairman of the joint chiefs and tells you how sick the system is that the system thinks its fine. There is something deeply sick about the idea that starting tomorrow this corrupt group of left wing idealogues is going to mop tore every soldier, sailor, marine, coast guard and airmen. I find that so unamerican, so much like chinese communism or the soviet communism that it is im surprised we arent going the American People in rebellion and of course you just saw the same thing with the Justice Department deciding that the fbis big job is to check on pta meetings and whether or not parents are acceptable. If that isnt a corruption of the system, i dont know what is. Ben that happens to be what im talking about next with a couple of senators. Thank you so much, speaker gingrich for doing my transition for me. Thank you. Ben speak up at a School Board Meeting, you are a domestic terrorist. Use a mob to threaten a senator and his wife you are free to go. We will talk to senator rand paul right after this. 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Why now . Well, the National School Boards Association demanded biden do it in a letter to him last week. Meanwhile, the mob that surrounded and threatened senator rand paul and his wife outside the white house last year, they are free to go. Joining me now is kentucky senator rand paul. Thank you, senator, for taking the time to join me. Thank you. Ben this seems absolutely ridiculous. I wonder what your reaction is to this word from Attorney General garland. You know, both my wife and i have been through a lot. Not only being myself being shot at, the ball field when Steve Scalise was nearly killed, being there when a mob of 100 surrounded us, threatening to kill us, holding us essentially hostage until policemen came and broke us free. They were assaulting the policemen as they were trying to get us to the hotel. One of the policemen was ultimately bloodied and had a laceration that required stitches above his eye. They arrested that one person but that person was then released on their own recognizance the same night for assaulting a police officer, released the same night. To our knowledge, he has still not been tried for this crime. I say good luck on finding him. We asked them to investigate the mob of 100 to see who paid for them to come to d. C. , who was putting them up in thousand dollar a night hotels . Not one thing was ever done by the Department Of Justice. But now moms at School Boards are being, you know, told that theyre criminals, potential domestic terrorists for the crime of dissent. I think criminalizing dissent is something that we should all be appalled with. Ben senator, you and i are old enough to remember 20 years ago when they there was a great deal of rage on the left concerning the reaction to september 11th, raising concerns that the patriot act and other steps would be used to silence dissenters or violate american privacy. Todays left seems to be entirely in favor of that, especially when it comes to the issues like Critical Race Theory and pushing back against these mandates. What changed . Well, i think the problem is its become so normalized to use government to search out and seek out opponents. Fisa warrants supposed to be used on foreigners used on Trump Campaign and Trump Campaign operatives the left didnt blink an eye there are people i know on the left who should have stepped forward and should have said how wrong it is to use this Foreign Intelligence Court that uses a standard lower than the constitution to go after political campaign. Yet, the left, once it became about trump their hatred of trump trumped everything else. I have a feeling and a fear that the left has become more authoritarian that we can really even imagine. Matt writes from the Rolling Stone i think from a left wing specific probably. Is he a good journalist. He writes how we used, to the left used to be proud of skepticism and questioning authority and how the left now has become more like, you know, platos sort of concept that, you know, obey the experts if you dont we should censure out dissent this is a dangerous trend for the country. Ben there is another part of this cleanup im concerned about big tech seems very willing to cooperate with the government in every respect in this regard. Without, you know, sort of going through any of the processes normally put in place that require to you go to court. That require to you go through the various processes in order to violate peoples privacy and chase them down as if they are actual threats. Im very concerned and im sure there are people who are concerned that if they go to their local school board and say the wrong thing, that they are going to end up on some list that Merrick Garland goes after. What would you say to these people . I would say be afraid. Be afraid of your government. And thats a sad thing from someone in the government to say. Buff the thing is those lists already exist. For example, people in Northern Virginia that have gone to, have been then sought ought by the school council. By the members of the school board and retaliated in a sort of legalistic way to try to put them on some sort of list and chill their speech by letting them know there will be a penalty for showing up and protesting. Look, there are all kinds of laws about decorum and there ought to be. You know, the idiot woman that goes in the Bathroom Filming senator sinema in a bathroom that is illegal according to every local ordinance that you should punish that person. If you go to a School Board Meeting and you are disruptive and you dont obey the rules of the School Board Meeting, then there will be local punishment. But it has nothing to do with the federal law. It has nothing to do with the Department Of Justice. What Maker Garland did, if is he attempting to stifle dissent and attempting to say beware or big brother is coming after you if you speak out against my policies or against the biden policies. Ben that is designed to shut up everyone who is. Without question. Ben isnt willing to sacrifice everything they have in order to make that argue many. Thank you so much for joining me tonight, senator paul. Thank you. Ben also here tonight florida senator marco rubio. Thank you. Ben im very concerned about these developments concerning the doj potentially cracking down on what obviously ought to be something that parents are able to voice in terms of their critiques of what is being taught to their children within these Public Schools and to the policies of the schools. What is your reaction to this news by doj. First of all its alarm and and second of all hypocritical. Alarming that somehow if parents show up at school board to complain, if somebody there decides we dont like his tone of voice we dont like how loud is he speak or how often he shows up. You can be reported. The federal bureau of investigation which should be focused on things like organized crime. Things like drug traffickers, things like terrorism and others who seek to harm this country is now going to divert resources to investigate parents because they scream too loudly or maybe even rude at School Board Hearing and hypocritical let me tell you very few of senators members on the right members of congress as well who have not been harassed in their private life. Now, obviously you just interviewed senator paul and he has gone through some pretty extreme situations. But i personally have had people show up at my home when im there or not there. They dont respect if you are home had people there confront my family at my homes. We dont make videos out of it but they sometimes do. I dont see at love concern. I was here a couple years ago when the Supreme Court hearings were going on there, were senators being chased into elevators and down the hall. The way it was covered by a lot of people in the presses, you get what you deserve. You deserve to be run out. And, in fact, you had Maxine Waters and others on television basically saying if you see these people out in public. Scream at them. Not just be nasty and rude to them. Try to intimidate them. They have normalized this behavior when this comes to left wing protesters but then when a parent speaks out about a school board, they want to sick the fbi on them. This is crazy. Like if you would have told me five years ago this was going to happen i would say there is no way Something Like this would happen. Its happening. Ben senator, i have another question for you on a different topic. Im very concerned one of the results of this going to be there is going to have to be Security Details for every u. S. Senator at the end of the day. We have always prided ourselves on the ability of citizens to be able to afrozen the senator and have access to talk to them over the years. Are those days going to be in the past for us . I dont think having a Security Detail for every member of congress is possible. I dont think you could do that you have couldnt afford it and couldnt hire enough people to do that. It wouldnt be practical. What is going it happen here is something terrible is going to happen eventually because we have basically normalized this behavior. Understand, its hypocritical because the left says if you are doing it to someone on the right. They deserve it if you are doing it to someone on the left, or someone who comes from their agenda, you should be investigated. I never thought i would live to see the day that this kind of thing would be happening in country. But it is. Ben i know that you are very concerned about whats going on at the border that we have been covering here at fox over the past weeks and months. What is your take in terms of any kind of approach that can be done to actually make the Biden Administration respond to this particularly supposed border czar Kamala Harris. Kamala harris shouldnt be the border czar she isnt doing anything. If she is they need to find Somebody Else. Haitian migrants alone between 90 and 120,000 haitian migrants some of whom have been living in chile or ecuador for the better part of 10 years who now, those countries ran out of jobs and so now they are looking to make the journey north. Theyre at various stages of transit. We are being told that country and country reasonable. Not just from haiti alone. Not to mention 9 other places. If you talk to people at the border, people that have crossed, they will all tell you the same thing. They expect to get into the United States. They expect to enter. They expect to be released. Pending an asylum hearing that many have no intention to show up for. And when they make the journey they call back home, they let other people know about it and ten courtrooms more people to do the same. Its a rolling catastrophe. We will continue to see incidents like what we saw just two weeks ago and my heart break for people from haiti and All Over The World no. Nation on earth can have the open border we basically have now and just tell anyone who wants to come please show up. You cant do it. But thats what this administration thinks they are going to do. If Kamala Harris is the one in charge of this, they need to find Somebody Else and fast. Ben senator aruba, thanks sr joining me tonight. Thank you. Ben come up, facebook is on fire on capitol hill. Democrats and republicans calling for big reforms after a whistleblowers testimony. But is that a good thing . We will ask the producer of the social dilemma. Next. Happy 25th anniversary fox news. 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Ben this week washington facebook became Public Enemy Number One after former employee came forward and accusing the company of putting profit in front of public safety. Members on both sides of the aisle disagree something needs to be done. If there is something democrats and republicans are good at is taking a problem and making it 10 times worse. Joining us is cofounder of center for humane technology. Im worried about a lot of Different Things related to social media. It seemed to me in looking at what the conversation was around this week it was the first time that things really broke through are these things even good for the children who are using them . Yeah. Absolutely. I think that, you know, we have been saying these things for those who watch the social dilemma. We have been saying it a very long time. Not that there is sort of an accident there is minor harm to children. If you are a 1yearold, and you say, you know, i even social dilemma. I dont want to use this stuff anymore and you wills in the instagram and facebook will start more aggressively sending messages and video and notifications saying hey, you want to come back . Your friend tagged you in your photo. They try to dial up digital drug lord the thing that will get tomb do being ba. The key thing different this time with Frances Haugen the whistleblowers testimony we have the receipts this isnt about a person frances. This is actually about thousands of pages of facebooks own Research Showing that they knew facebook specifically instagram for kids excuse me instagram thats the product, they are pausing instagram for kids it puts kids in a downward spiral. They know it makes body image worse for one in three teenagers this was not designed by Child Psychologist like Sesame Street thinking how do we improve childrens government this is asking whats good for engagement now we have the receipts. Ben one of the things that i feel like is going to be here is that you take something that has been a normal dynamic of Human Existence such ascertaining girls feeling, you know, uncomfortable body images and that used to be localized used to be within friend group and schools and people that they knew. Now it is essentially globalized and taken around the world. One of the things that we are concerned about, particularly here in america is that big tech is essentially doing the same thing when it comes to every aspect of our lives. Say a political opinion, for instance, on facebook or on google or on any Social Media Platform and rather than have it being something within your friend group or community its something that can be nationalized and used against you and make you go viral essentially and ruin your life. It seems like these are two parts of the same problem with these entities and a fundamental problem with big tech. Thats actually exactly right. I mean, the real problem here, if i had to say whats the lead in the water supply. Whats the ingredient the dangerous ingredient at the route of this we want to isolate i would say its virttle combined with. The race to the bottom of the brainstem elicits the most activity what makes us angry and afraid, what makes us hate our fellow country men and women, what makes us feel comparison to other people. Those are all reaction. And they are all part of us like you said. They have been there for a long time thats human nature. Its different when i have a trillion dollars company who has a Super Computer who with trillions of dollars of resources behind it pointed at your brain and at your childrens brain to say whats the perfect next video or photo to get them to stay . The example in the research if you are a kid and you follow the dieting tip or a food tip, just Nutrition Tips well thats okay there is a bucket of users just like that. And they tend to like Anorexia Videos we show you Anorexia Videos. See how this creates rabbit hole. Facebooks Research Shows they know it puts kids in a downward spiral where it gets worse and worse. They could try to pull kids out of it but they didnt do that. Ben designed to work the way it does. Its not unintentional its intentional. Thats a key part of that thank you so much for joining me tonight, tristan. Thank you for having me. Ben we are all thinking it but john kerry is actually saying it. Joe biden literally doesnt know whats going on. Call him bdh. And he is next. My name is laura ingraham. Everybody at fox news for 20 years. I was not at fox news the moment it started. But i was at another network and that network was having a good time with fox thinking oh its not serious, its not going to last. That was the scuttle butt. And in the beginning you think you are with the cool network and then as time went on, i started watching it and i said hmmm that hannity is really good. Other shows, fox friends, something is going on here. And it became pretty apparent to me pretty quickly that it did not have an identity crisis, which a lot of the other outlets had. Fox knew what it wanted to be and stayed true to its mission. Thats the key. Fearlessness is an underrated quality. Fox is fearless. In austin, texas. I work as a Personal Assistant to the owner of a Large Manufacturing firm. Ive got anywhere from 10 to 50 projects going at any given time. I absolutely have to be sharp. Let me tell ya, i was struggling with my memory. It was going downhill. My friend recommended that i try prevagen and over time, it made a very significant difference in my memory and in my cognitive ability. I started to feel a much better sense of wellbeing. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. 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Kerry, the former Swift Boat Captain threw his commanderinchief overboard but leave it to jen psaki to try to right the ship today. He said the president s first love is foreign policy. Why doesnt he know about these things in realtime . Of course he knew about the french Being Displease Expblfd he said he literally had not been aware. I would encourage to you ask about the context of his comments. That certainly not what he was intending to convey. Ben joining us now Victor Davis Hanson author of the tying. How tribal elites globalization destroying the idea of america. Victor, what remember i dont thoughts on john kerrys admission . Well, he may be right that joe biden was unaware but he serves, ben, at the pleasure of the president why we use terms like i had to explain or the emphatic adverb literally or not being aware and i think is he trying to suggest that his portfolio does not match his importance and we saw that, again and again when donald trump was president. Weighs sort of freelancing on the iran deal with meetings in paris and places. Remember when he ran for president he had to explain that if you didnt go to college you would end up in iraq . Goes way back to when he gave us a lecture and had to say jing gascon, i think he has very inflated portfolio of himself. This is insidious fashion that a very minor character in an administration doesnt do to the president. He couldnt resist especially among french people because he is a selfavowed frankel fill. Ben victor, i feel like and there are shades of this, i think, in the conversations that general milley had with the press and others about his interactions with china. There is this whole portion of our Leadership Elite that feels like its incumbent upon themselves to run the country and run the world when they feel like the actual elected people arent up to the challenge or arent doing what they would like them to do. This seems to be a repeated problem, but particularly true not just in john kerrys behavior but in the military today. What are your thoughts on that. Im very worried about it we have got 2 Million People in the federal workforce and the elite that control and runs them is the judge, jury and executioner. Legislative executive and judicial branches all in one. They seem to be, whether its john james comey or James Clapper or john brennan or general milley, and, yet, they are blind. Think of the people you just mentioned, ben, so there is biden, and there is anthony fauci, and there is general mille. They all have a weakness for china. We have fauci funding really it was gain of function Research Rechina in and denying it. Milley calling his chinese counterpart and the president s son who still apparently hasnt did i divested in a 10 interest in a chinese company. These are the people running the country. So i know that joe biden was elected but they have a blind spot for china. And its insidious and its scary. Ben you have an entire chapter in your book on the unelected. I will look forward to talking to you about it on my podcast in a couple of weeks. But it seems to me essential reading for americans to understand that we are increasingly ruled by people who never have to stabbed in front of the voters. Yeah. They are not accountable. So, if john brennan lies under oath to congress about the Senate Computers or about Collateral Damage or James Clapper says, you know, i gave the least untruthful answer under oath, or maybe Robert Mueller when he is asked about the central pillars of his investigation, the steele dossier and g. P. S. He has no idea. Or james comey 245 times under oath says i dont know. We cant do that. We citizens to the irs. So, they feel that they are a law unto themselves. They are in a way. They have enormous power and there is no Citizen Control or audit of them. Ben taking back that power, i believe, is going to be the Essential Question of the coming years. Your book obviously speaks directly to it. Victor davis hanson, thanks so much for joining me tonight. Well, thank you for having me, ben. Ben up next, media madness, Washington Post blasts a worried mom who had the audacity to ask her Childs School to reconsider a mask mandate. burke ive seen this movie before. woman you have . burke sure, this is the part where all is lost and the hero searches for hope. Then, a mysterious figure reminds her that she has the farmers home policy perk, guaranteed replacement cost. And that her home will be rebuilt, regardless of her limits or if the cost of materials has gone up. woman thats really something. burke get a whole lot of something with farmers policy perks. Wait, i didnt ruin the ending, did i . woman yeah, yyou did. We are farmers. 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One mother sent a letter to her kids preschool asking them to reconsider the mandate. The letter contained counter arguments. The New York Times framed it as a Senior Editor at The Federalist mollie hemingway. Hadley, tom a a little bit about why you wrote this letter in the first place. Actually wrote the letter while i was on Maternity Leave so no one paid me to do it, i was doing it in my capacity as a mother out of concern for my son. I wrote to the head of the preschool and asked that the School Consider making masks a matter of Parental Choice and the Washington Post article is meant to smear me and smear my employer but the bigger implications, the worst implication is that parental pushback across the country that we are seeing is part of some conspiracy, that its not sincere, that its not legitimate, and concerns are legitimate and deserve to be heard. Mollie, i know youre familiar with the degree to which the Washington Post is willing to twist the truth in advocating for the interests of the mass numbers of americans that are against these Mask Mandates. Tell us about your perspective on this story. Its fascinating that the stories ran. Its not news that conservative groups are out there, that they are funded by conservatives or that hadley cares about these things. The only reason to run the stories to put a target on hadleys back in independent women forms because of the desire to marginalize and suppress anyone he speaking out against it. Its also not news the Washington Post is owned by jeff bezos who also owns amazon and that company benefited mightily. Sales were up 40 some. Its profits or 200 . They have benefited mightily from the pandemic and would like to keep people in a pandemic State Of Mind so they are financially and otherwise opposed to people having a different Point Of View in the Washington Post operates to exist to support those viewpoints and suppress those who dont agree with them. One of the things that is so surprising is the home Media Conglomerate that pretends that the opposition to these issues, that the pushback from parents is some kind of fringe perspective as opposed to what we have actually seen which is that an enormous number of americans, perhaps even the majority of parents are very skeptical of these mandates, why do you think the media is so willing to pretend that doesnt exist . They say my Letter Traffics in extremism so we made my letter freely available. It was previously available behind the pay wall an independent Womens Network where we empower women to make a difference in their community and we invite everyone to join but we made it freely available in front of the pay wall so people can read for themselves, this is not a letter that traffics extremism, it is a heartfelt plea, i wrote it for myself, person that i know, real person and that is a situation many parents are in. They want to voice their concerns, they dont want to be silenced or intimidated or if you like they are in the french but that is the goal, to make parents feel like you were the only one who feels this way, or youre going to be called a political hack or called other names or being accused of wanting more people to die from covid which couldnt be farther from the truth. The National Media seeks to make every dispute that happens on a local level, in this case between a local mother and a preschool something where they can kind of marshal the forces that support their perspective to go after people who dont toe the line of their narrative. They have done that so well and so many people have done that including the National School board association, asked the Department Of Justice to go after parents who are speaking again some of the more extreme actions on their school board. Its easier to fight if they can get all of the National Media to go up against mothers like hadley and others across the country who are trying to have a say in their schools on how they are run. Mollie and hadley, think is so much for taking the time to join me tonight. I think this is an incredibly important issue and i hope people will check out your letter and read and understand it comes from people who really do have children, no the people they are writing to inquire about the subject. Thank you so much for joining me joining me. Thank you. Thank you for watching Fox News Primetime tonight. Dont forget to catch the ben domenech podcast. I had Ryan Holiday On recently, i had scott adams on it i hope you will check it out and also check out my newsletter where i have all of my monologues. We will be back tomorrow night at 7 00. Until then, be lovers of freedom and anxious for the fray. Tucker carlson is coming up next. Tucker good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight. If you lived in this country 15 years ago and youve got a good memory you may remember the creation of something called the National Security division at the Department Of Justice. It was created back in 2005 when they reupped the patriot act. Now the point of the National Security division, we were told at that time, was to conduct counterterrorism and